Boar's tusk helmet

The boar's tusk helmet is a type of military headwear used in Mycenaean Greece., Lesson 16: The Shaft Graves. The helmet was made of ivory from a boar's tusks and attached in rows onto a leather base padded with felt. 

Homeric epic
A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in the tenth book of Homer's Iliad where Odysseus is armed for a night-raid against the Trojans.

The number of ivory plates needed to make a helmet ranges from 40 to 140.. Also, around forty to fifty boars would have to be killed to make just one helmet..

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Category:Military of ancient Greece